The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…

Posted on May 22, 2012 via The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows with 16,069 notes

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There is no living being on earth at this moment except myself. I could walk down the halls, and empty rooms would yawn mockingly at me from every side. God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of ‘parties’ with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear.

Sylvia Plath (via serialstranger)

Posted on May 21, 2012 via The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter with 86 notes

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fishingboatproceeds:

I’m a big Shepard Fairey fan, and like a lot of people who went to high school in the 90s, I was completely fascinated by the Andre the Giant Has a Posse phenomenon, which morphed into the OBEY Giant, and now of course there is an OBEY clothing line.

So anyway today we were at Urban Outfitters and I put this hat on, and I asked Sarah if I could pull it off, and she just tilted her head at me in a very kind and generous way and said, “I think your Urban Outfitters days are behind you.”

Stupid time, always traveling in just the one direction.

See above for why John Green is just absolutely awesome.

Posted on May 21, 2012 via John Green's tumblr with 484 notes

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